Grace Maria Eberhardt

Grace Maria Eberhardt is a PhD Candidate in History and a Latina/o Studies graduate minor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Grace uses an interdisciplinary approach in her work by drawing on the history of science, U.S. political history, Latina/o studies, and public history. She is researching the scientific racialization of Latinos in the U.S. in her dissertation, tentatively titled The Latino Count: Biological, Statistical, and Bureaucratic Classification of Latinos in the U.S. 1910 – 2030. Grace’s undergraduate research greatly contributed to the University of Puget Sound’s Board of Trustees unanimous decision to rename the Puget Sound Museum of Natural History in May of 2023.